Hello everyone! I made an account today so i could get some help from this wonderful forum. i need help so bad. i’m getting very very worried!
So to begin, earlier this week my girlfriend and I noticed our beautiful merle Holland Lop, Myop, wasn’t moving much and was just sitting next to her water dish with her paws dipped in it. We thought maybe she was just being lazy. After a while in which she didn’t move, we picked her up to inspect her and notice an inch long rip down the length of her tail. She also just had not been eating at all. We were instantly concerned and took her to the vet. They stitched her up, gave her an appetite shot and an antibiotic shot and we went on our way. We picked up some Critical Care and syringe fed her the Critical care and water and kept a close eye on her. Within an hour, we noticed she had peed and had a generous amount of poos in her liter box so we ruled out GI Stasis (my biggest fear) but she was still sitting in the corner of her cage and not moving much.
The next day we notice that the wound on her tail had opened up a bit and she still wasn’t eating. We then took her back to the vet and they kept her overnight to stitch her up again and keep an eye on her. This morning we picked her up and the vet told up that she was looking good, to which we were relieved. We took her home and she drank a little bit of water, had two carrots and some hay, and was digging in the phone book that she loves so much. That was earlier but now she still won’t eat! This is really frustrating me!
Is it possible that she just isn’t hungry cause of the pain from her tail? The vet said that she was doing fine, but are they telling the truth? She is doing some normal behaviors ie. grooming herself, Standing up on her hind legs. But this not eating thing is really getting me worried. I love my baby and i want her to get back to her crazy self!
P.s. We have been continuing the Critical Care and water feeding.
Please help me out if you can! Thank you!
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